acceptance sampling - a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected

Occasions arise when researchers encounter problems recruiting participants and for practical purposes might, in addition to purposive sampling, resort to convenience sampling where participants are in close proximity to the researcher.

Regarding sample numbers, the use of smaller samples in qualitative interviewing is appropriate due to the use of purposive sampling (Creswell, 2009; Patton, 2002) of "information-rich cases for study in depth .

Because the sought out participants were acquired indiscriminately from lists of members of housing developer associations, contractor associations and professional bodies who work in firms that operate in Penang, purposive sampling was used.

Set in Russia, this study uses purposive sampling and grounded theory to develop detailed frameworks for understanding the ways that foreign LSPs' resources, and capabilities are adapted to an emerging market business context.

In the first stage a purposive sampling of one local government area each (Katsina- Ala, Markurdi and Otukpo, respectively) was drawn from each of the zones based on the fact they consist of major urban centers in the State; In the second stage a purposive selection of one town from each of the selected Local Government areas while in the last stage a random selection of 50 households from each town was made to give a total of 150 households.

First engaging with the three strategies of theoretical, purposeful, and purposive sampling, the initial chapters use three cases to illustrate the empiricism of grounded theory and theoretical sampling from the traditions of positivism to constructivism, the practicality and judgments of the researcher implementing purposeful sampling strategies, and the interpretive analytic induction of theoretical or purposive sampling, with examples of these methodologies in practice.

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